SELOLE'S HOSTILITY. 
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press to ra.so the tribe of Mburuma against us. All the 
women i f Selolc had fled, and the few people wo mot ex- 
hibited Ligns of terror. An armed party had como from 
Mburuma in obedience to the call ; but the head-man of 
the company, being -Mburuma’s brother, suspecting that it 
was a hoax, came to our encampment and told us tho whole. 
When wo explained our objects, ho told us that Mburuma, ho 
had no doubt, would receive us well. Tho reason why So- 
ldo acted in this foolish manner we afterward found to be 
this: an Italian named Simoons, and nicknamed Siriatomba, 
(don’t oat tobacco,) had married tho daughter of a chief 
called Sekokolo, living north of Tote. Ho armed a party 
of fifty slaves with guns, and, ascending tho river in canoes 
some distance beyond tho island Moya makaba, attacked 
sovcral inhabited islands beyond, securing a largo number 
of prisoners and much ivory. On his return, the different 
chiefs — at the instigation of his father-in-law, who also did 
not wish him to set up as chief — united, attacked and dis- 
persed tho party of Simoons, and killed him while trying 
to cscapo on foot. Soldo imagined that I was anothoi 
Italian, or, as ho expressed it, “ Siriatomba rison from the 
dead.” In his messago to Mburuma he even said that 
Mobala, and all tho villages beyond, were utterly destroyed 
by our fire-arms; but the sight of Mobala himself, who had 
como to tho village of Soldo, led tho brother of Mburuma 
to see at once that it was all a hoax. But for this tho 
foolish fellow Soldo might have given us trouble. 
Wo saw many of tho liberated captives of this Italian 
among tho villages hero, and Sekwobu found them to be 
Matcbelo. Tho brother of Mburuma had a gun, which was 
"ho first wo had seen in coming eastward. Boforo we 
reached Mburuma, my men wont to attack a troop of do- 
phants, as thoy were much in need of meat. When tho 
troop began to run, ono of thorn fell into a hole, and boforo 
be could extricato himself an opportunity was afforded foi 
dl tho men to throw thoir spears. When ho roso bo was 
bko a huge porcupine, for each of tho seventy or eighty mea 
